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nonbinary pride flag sampled from cohost ui
for fun 🏳‍🌈

love this

an ongoing joke we had pre-launch was "while most websites are blue, cohost is the only website using sunbleached lesbian flag colors." locked twitter icon for like a year prior to our alpha launch was using this exact image as its background. no one noticed.

if you ever wanted to :awoo: in chosts, you're in luck: now you can!

i ported the @mutant standard emoji set by @dzuk to cohost with a userscript + a website!

features:

• it supports the full mutant standard emoji set
• it supports all variations, and has a picker for them
• you can make emojis in the default size or bigger
• it's fully accessible (automatically sets alt text & title based on emoji metadata, eg alt="paw hand (tan fur colour)" title="paw hand (tan fur colour)")
• it supports cohost posts as well as comments, and autodetects comment sections
• you can even use it in other places that support markdown/HTML
• everyone can see them, even if they do not have the script installed
• it has a nice UI for picking emojis

you can use it at https://mutant.us.to (no userscript required), and install the userscript (what is that?/how do i install that?) from there, and you can open the emoji picker by pressing CTRL+. (and Control+. on macOS) or the icon next to the old emoji button! and the source code is available on github (but it is a bit messy lol)

EDIT: i forgot to add an update URL, so if you installed it before i edited this in: reinstall the userscript you will get updates now (and there will be a few)

EDIT 2: i released a new update with a bunch of features! https://cohost.org/lexi/post/474136-b-style-font-size

a few technical details for nerds:

EDIT 10:33am EST: all clear! thanks for using cohost

happy sunday everyone

you have likely noticed that you are getting logged out of cohost more frequently than you would expect. we are once again hitting limits with our session storage, so sessions are getting expired more quickly than they should.

we are bumping that DB to another level and, while it's ostensibly a zero-downtime process, there will likely be a few minutes of downtime. we'll sound an all-clear once it's done.

MATH ASSHOLES CALL PI "NONREPEATING" BUT IT'S ALL BULLSHIT. LOOK AT IT. THERE'S THE NUMBER 4 IN THERE, AND THEN LATER, THERE'S THE NUMBER 4 AGAIN. FUCK OFF